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KEEPING AN EYE OPEN: ESSAYS ON ART
Written by Julian Barnes.
Stock no. 1826386
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 2015. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. Fully illustrated in colour. Contains essays on: Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Howard Hodgkin and Lucian Freud. ISBN: 9780224102018. Text block just very slightly grubby else contents clean.

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BOY
Written by Roald Dahl.
Stock no. 1826385
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1984. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Autobiography. Glimpses of one of the world's most popular writers for children that no one will want to miss. ISBN: 0224029851. Top edge of text block just a little dusty. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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ETHEL & ERNEST
Written by Raymond Briggs. Illustrated by Raymond Briggs.
Stock no. 1826384
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1998. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of Raymond Brigg's parents told in a deeply moving and very funny strip cartoon format. Brown boards, gilt titles to spine. ISBN: 0224046624. A lovely copy. White pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby.

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THE PERAMBULATOR IN EDINBURGH
Written by James Bone. Illustrated by E.S. Lumsden.
Stock no. 1826311
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st thus 1926. Almost very good condition.

First published under the title 'Edinburgh Revisited' in 1911, this is an enlarged and completely revised edition with new illustrations. 16 tissue- guarded b/w sketches. Blue cloth, white title labels. 179 pages. Cloth boards browned and frayed at edges. Browning to endpapers. Text block is deckle-edged and browned. A few scattered foxspots. All plates are present but only two tissue-guards remain. The two plates with tissue guards are browned as is the tissue-guard. Otherwise, contents clean. Dustwrapper is discoloured, edge-worn and chipped, some surface paper loss from the removal of a lable to rear panel.

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'IN THE BEGINNING,' SAID GREAT-AUNT JANE
Written by Helen Bradley. Illustrated by Helen Bradley.
Stock no. 1826264
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt titles to front and spine. Large, oblong format. Yellow endpapers. Colour paintings throughout. ISBN: 0224011499. Some foxing present, mainly to text block and rear pastedown. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded at spine and lower edges.

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AESOP'S FABLES
Written by Aesop; John Vernon Lord; James Michie. Illustrated by John Vernon Lord.
Stock no. 1325599
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1989. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Introduced, selected and illustrated by John Vernon Lord, Retold in Verse by James Michie. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers and b/w illustrations. xvi and 160 pages including index. ISBN: 0224025872. Spine bumped. Small indentation to edge of front cover. Contents clean. White dustwrapper is edge creased with wear to top of spine and small tear to edge of front panel (to match dent in cover below).

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COOT CLUB
Written by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 1325555
Published by Jonathan Cape. 2007. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Revised edition. Green boards, gilt title to spine and blind title to front cover. B/w illustrations. 352 pages. A Norfolk Broads adventure. ISBN: 9780224606356. Spine slightly bumped. Light creases to spine top and tail of wrapper.

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WE DIDN'T MEAN TO GO TO SEA
Written by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 1325458
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1998. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine and blind title to front cover. Pictorial endpapers, b/w text illustrations. ISBN: 0224021230. Spine very slightly bumped. Rear panel of wrapper is slightly grubby, slight rubbing to wrapper edges.

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THE TWILIGHT OF MAGIC
Written by Hugh Lofting. Illustrated by Lois Lenski.
Stock no. 1325456
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st UK 1931. Good condition.

Pink cloth with yellow title boxes, black titles. Colour pictorial endpapers. Colour frontis plate and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Covers a bit grubby. Some light foxing to contents. Extremely light colouring to the b/w illustrations (very neat and hardly noticeable).

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THE ROALD DAHL TREASURY
Written by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake; Raymond Briggs; Babette Cole; et al..
Stock no. 1825565
Published by Jonathan Cape. Circa 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Complete stories, extracts, rhymes and memoirs in four themed sections: Animals; Magic; Family, Friends and Foes; and Matters of Importance. Red boards with white title to spine. 444 pages. Yellow endpapers. Packed full of colour illustrations. ISBN: 9780224046916. 21st printing. Lower corners of boards rubbed. Lower edge of text block marked with slight marking to lower margin of contents (minor). Else contents fine. Green pictorial dustwrapper has a minor closed tear to top front edge and is very slightly grubby.

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THE DULCIMER BOY
Written by Tor Seidler. Illustrated by David Hockney.
Stock no. 1825535
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st UK 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A story for children set in New England at the turn of the century. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0224019333. Slight fading to boards. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is browned to spine and a little scuffed.

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THE ROALD DAHL TREASURY
Written by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake; Patrick Benson; Raymond Briggs; et al..
Stock no. 1325182
Published by Jonathan Cape. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Bringing together some of the most dazzling moments in the work of this extraordinary writer. Blue boards, silver title to spine. 444 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9780224046916. 25th printing. Spine and corners bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge creased.

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